Okay, now that I have your attention I will try and explain my reasoning. Thanks to Phil down below for his post on random mutations to bring this to light!

Now everyone knows that the first Motley ever born was a completely random creation of nature. Okay. So whatever odds that is, it was born.

Now Jeremy bred one of his early Motleys to a normal. Right.

So he should get Motleys and Normals, but....

he got an extra surprise....Purple Patternless!

Soo....
how?

Well. Imagine the sire was not a motley, but other than that single allele he had the same genes. That litter would have been one to produce a random mutant Motley, just as the first motley was born. Everyone following?

Now, the sire WAS a Motley, so that baby that normally would have been a RANDOM Motley ended up getting smacked with ANOTHER Motley allele from dad. So...

BANG! Super Motley!


Something more...
With all the random neonates from crazy litter, often it is attributed to unknown hets, but they aren't actually hets, (I am sure some are) they are random genes. Now with things like Jeremy's T-plus X Motley that produced two T-plus Albino was not the same thing. That can be explained by parthenogenisis because the female was the T-plus and the two baby t-plus albinos were both girls, and homozygous t-plus obviously. Like little clones. Which makes sense, everyone has seen identical twins from the same egg, that have the same genes but different phenotypes, clones must only have IDENTICAL genotypes, they can vary in appearance.

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• ANSWER to the FIRST Purple Patternless!> - ChrisGilbert, Sat Sep 23 13:57:04 2006
• RE: ANSWER to the FIRST Purple Patternless!> - PanamaRed, Sat Sep 23 14:48:57 2006
• Good point... - ChrisGilbert, Sat Sep 23 14:55:31 2006
• RE: Good point... - PanamaRed, Sat Sep 23 15:05:05 2006
• Celia's litter... - ChrisGilbert, Sat Sep 23 15:26:11 2006
• There are some odd things... - Rainshadow, Sat Sep 23 15:03:08 2006
• haha, well done...n/p - ChrisGilbert, Sat Sep 23 15:27:00 2006
• 2 Thoughts on the subject ... - GainesReptiles, Sat Sep 23 17:08:25 2006
• I think... - Rainshadow, Sat Sep 23 19:21:11 2006
• RE: I think... - GainesReptiles, Sat Sep 23 19:53:17 2006
• *lol*...exactly! - Rainshadow, Sat Sep 23 20:10:46 2006
• RE: *lol*...exactly! - metachrosis, Sat Sep 23 22:27:44 2006
• I agree with you both! - ChrisGilbert, Sat Sep 23 20:42:52 2006
• Next Live Chat... The Pope! np - PGoss, Sat Sep 23 22:59:29 2006
• Thanks Bill for providing some humor... - PGoss, Sat Sep 23 22:12:56 2006